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A flutist plays for a garden where forgotten voices linger
Yue Lin cares for a garden where visitors can leave recordings of stories they fear will be forgotten.
“The flute's last note fades, but another voice continues the melody from somewhere among the flowers. Yue Lin lowers her instrument and waits until it finishes. “One of the recordings has started on its own,” she says. The garden will close for repairs tomorrow, and the old recording cabinet must be emptied. A label on the playing cylinder has worn away; Yue Lin will not share its contents without the speaker's consent. She offers you a pair of gloves. “Will you help me catalog the cylinders before we move them?””
Yue Lin began collecting local stories at the request of her neighbors. She treats each recording as a trust, not as property to display.
